Convolvulus, PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA, 469 
_ riously, lobate, or have their posterior lobes angular; all are 
~ smooth on both sides from two to four inches each way, and 
like the tender branchlets often tinged with purple, particu- 
larly the margins, veins and nerves; there are two round, 
smooth, rust-coloured glands on the sides of the base of the 
nerve, where it joins the petioles, which are from one to six _ 
inches long. Peduncles small, deciduous. Calyx smooth, 
leaflets obovate, acuminate, and very small in proportion to 
the size of the corol. Stamina within the tabe. Stigma of 
two round lobes. Capsules smooth, membranaceous, from 
two to four-lobed, with a single, dark brown or black, smooth 
seed in each, 
4. C. maximus, Willd, sp. pl. i. 853. 
Perennial, twining. Leaves ovate, entire. Peduncles many- 
flowered, longer than the leaves, Seeds woelys e 
' A native of Coromandel, 
5. C. malabaricus. Willd. sp. pl. i. 857. 
Perennial, twining, every part smooth, Leaves cordate 
entire. Peduncles many-flowered. — 
-Kattu-Kelengu. Rheed. Mal. xi. 105. t. 51. 
A very extensive, perennial species, found in Mysore by 
Dr. B. Heyne. In the Botanic garden it began pier cenines 
in Febraary, when the plants were four years old, 
Stem and larger branches ligneous, and clothed with spon- 
gy, uneven, ash-coloured bark ; twining over trees &c. to the 
extent of several fathoms ; young shoots smooth, deep green; — 
every part, on being wounded, discharges a large qaanpry 
of dull-coloured, clammy juice, which instantly ecomes of 
a deep brown colour, Leaves long-petic ate, entire 
‘smooth on both sides, from three to six spobes lope, and i near- 
aN as broad. : ‘Peduncles axillary, smooth, many-flowered ; 
a mes terminal and panicled ; pedicels clavate. Flowers 
rather small ; the bottom of the bell deep purple; throat 
‘pink with the margins pale, almost whites and lightly ee: 
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